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Housing opportunities have remained varied but with new emphasis on recycling of existing structures both along the lakeshore and in the rural areas. New construction is heavily weighted toward individual scattered sites with very little development on tracts of resulting in more than three 5-6 dwelling units. Likewise, there have been major changes in metropolitan sewer facilities. Where ten years ago While thirty years ago the MWCC thought expected that all of Orono was to be sewered and developed at an urban density, regional trends have Orono's low-densitv land use plan caused the Orono interceptor to be redesigned, relocated and installed so as to serve only the existing urban areas of the City and possibly certain other existing pockets of development along the lakeshore. While The Metropolitan Council ’s 208 Water Quality Study in the 1970 ’s concluded that upgrading of Maple Plain's treatment plat would best serve to reduce pollution problems without requiring additional interceptor construction, the Maole Plain interceptor was eventually constructed but with little excess capacity to serve Orono . Therefo re, no Oro n e-Lo n g Lake inte recpler eapacit)* was pro vid ed for Maple Platn; The remaining rural areas have therefore been recognized as being permanently rural and permanently self-sufficient as far as sanitation facilities are concerned. This on-site capability is also in tune with a realignment of national engineering and environmental philosophies which now recognize the advantages of water resource recycling and the manageability of low density treatment and disposal systems as opposed to ground water depletion and the tremendous environmental problems of concentrated pollution overloading at central treatment plants. CMP 6-13